Environmental Policy, Environmental Economics, History of Social Thought

Outline Activities

Ms. Kayoko Kondo has long studied human behavior, social conditions that allow a circulating system to make the most of renewable energy and natural resources in local communities. Especially, conditions for biomass utilization's success and which based conditions for regional activation. Further studied the formation of human behavior, which supports a kind of local community given above, pointed on participation in the communities and way of mutual relations.She is also active in the study of environmental education to help foster pro-environmental human behavior. Regarding her social activities, she is dedicated to forming sustainable societies by participating in local governments’ environmental policy-making panels, or by supporting local residents in their communities.

Promotion of biomass utilization and Social conditions for Regional development based on biomass utilizationkeyword : biomass2009.04.

low-carbon life style and recycling society in Asian countries keyword : China, Thailand, Vietnam2009.04～2009.04Environmental behabiors of national and local gobernments,companies and inhabitants in Asia .

The study of circulating system, citizen's behavior, and regional policy for making a sustainable community keyword : circulating society, participating citizen, environmental management, social system2003.04Social and ecological design of sustainable regional society.

Educational effect in a community school, the growth of children in a regionkeyword : education, region2008.03.

The study of consumer's behavior on spreading of solar power generation and enegy-saving residencekeyword : environment2007.04.

Current and Past Project

Biomass utilization faces many impediments, such as initial and maintenance cost, effective collection of materials, use of byproduct, and coordination among concerned organization and local people. We actively conducted nation-wide field studies on local communities that are utilizing biomass. Regarding the utilization of food waste, questionnaire surveys were conducted to local governments across Japan which utilize food waste as a resource. Regarding a model of animal excreta utilization, a questionnaire survey was conducted to livestock breeders in Miyakonojo. Based on the results of these surveys, scenarios of biomass utilization were made for different type of models: food waste, wood waste, and animal excreta. Then, we discussed a format to verify the feasibility of our scenarios. After the mid-term hearings, we collected information of unsuccessful cases, and interviewed core people in the communities. We held a workshop on wood biomass, where we released our research results to the public and also had discussion with invited representatives from the communities that were leading in biomass utilization, such as Shimokawa-town, or Maniwa-city. Then, we made clear the challenges of biomass utilization and what would lead it to a success from a practical point of view, while examining the outcome of our research team.

Study on Regeneration of Endemic Lifestyles in China to Support Low-carbon Society

Hang Ben, Kayoko Kondo, The Energy Consumption of Heating in the Northeast Rual Area of China from the Perspective of the Kang and Agricultural Waste, Meteorological and Environmental Research, 6, 1, 2015.01.

A Study on Evaluating Policies for Promoting the Residential Photovoltaic System Based on Consumer Research Method, KONDO Kayoko, FUJIMURA Junpei, Journal of Environmental Engineering, Arichitectural Institute of Japan, Vol.76 No.667. pp.847-853, 2011.09.

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Role of Community School in Children's Activities, Development of Social Relations in their Community, and View of their Community, KONDO Kayoko, ISHIGAMI Shogo,the Journal of Design, Kyushu University, Vol. 14, 2011.03.

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LCA on Regional Management Systems for Household Waste with an Analysis of Practical Social Conditions, KONDO Kayoko and others, Journal of the Japan Society of Waste Management Experts, Vol.19(2), pp. 110-119, 2008.03.

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KONDO Kayoko, HAN Youngjin, The Effects and Continuance of Environmental Education Based on Experience: Toward School and Family Collaboration, Journal of Environmental Information Science, Voi.36, No.5, pp.151-156, 2008.03.

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KONDO Kayoko, TANI Masakazu, On the influence of spare time and life habits on environmentally conscious behavior: practical knowledge and practical action, Journal of Environmental Information Science, Vol.35, No.5,pp.85-92, 2007.03.

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The singnificance and a role of nature education in gardening activity at an elementary school in inner city district; on a schoolchildren comparison investigation between city-environment and coutntry-envrionment, KONDO Kayoko, MATSUFUJI Ryohei,Architectural Institute of Japan, Vol.601, pp.73-79, 2006.03.

She is dedicated to forming susutainable societies through participation in local residents' activities or policy-making panels in local governments. She expects all parties, including NPO, governments, business corporates, residents,and universities, to cooperate with each other to make unique communities, where local residents are actively involved..